Top 210 Contest Quotes

My first book, ‘Contest,’ had a guy fighting aliens in the New York Public Library. The second book, ‘Ice Station,’ and ‘Temple’ were present-day military thrillers.

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap – like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.

Music is not a contest, it’s not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double – she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.

I was just 15 years old when I came from Chandigarh, which was a very small town then. I became part of the entertainment field after winning the Young Miss India contest.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

What I really like about ‘Grit’ – especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says ‘Never Give Up’ and who truly tries to live his life to that credo – we recruited 16 people who said, ‘I will never give up.’ And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

I’m not here to win a popularity contest.

You don’t have to go and criticize your opponents, how bad they are and so on. It is a contest of ideas. I got my ideas, you got your ideas right. We will let Singaporeans decide.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

I was 21, and I was in college, and I’d eat real healthy during the week, and then on the weekends I would reward myself, and I’d just go to town on whatever my parents had in the fridge. And my little brother would be like, ‘Hey.’ And so it was actually him that begged me to do my first contest.

There’s a couple of foods that if you see me eat them in a contest, you can tell I like them. Grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken wings, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza. I mean, those, they go down like I was made to eat them.

As much as I love acoustic Neil Young – and I do deeply – I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it’s not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar – I feel like I’ve never seen or heard anything like it.

The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

My first hero was Serena Williams. No contest.

While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.

Making economic policy isn’t a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It’s not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It’s about really paying your dues. It’s people I’m fans of and want to help in the business.

You see guys in amateur contest who are much better conditioned than the professionals. To me the professionals should be better. Just because they are bigger, it doesn’t mean they are better.

‘American Idol’ is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element – folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS’s ‘Survivor’ and other shows that imitate it, the ‘American Idol’ contestants, of course, sing.

I’ve no wish to run into a contest and make a fool of myself, leaving my career in a cul-de-sac. I want to be a success in the sport of bodybuilding.

I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate hearing someone play something in a way that I wouldn’t.

Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don’t learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren’t expecting that.

Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she’s one of the superstars. She’s ready for the big one, but she doesn’t stand a chance against me. Women’s tennis is so far beneath men’s tennis; that’s what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.

I will take sanyas from politics but I cannot contest election with the BJP.

I am very happy to be nominated by the Congress party to contest the Lok Sabha elections.

When the participants of the Femina Miss India contest join the Art of Living course, we stress that they must live in the present moment and enjoy it.

I’m of course jumping right in with the attitude that I can win the Eurovision Song Contest – or at least finish in second place!

If I convince myself that I’m going contest in West Coast, I will go. It doesn’t matter who else comes because that’s your belief.

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and ‘rough’ are not satisfied.

The beauty of Test cricket is all about playing an opponent in their backyard or defending home turf under challenging conditions over five days – dominating each session, dominating each day, picking 20 wickets to win a contest. That’s historically been cricket’s most fascinating gift.

The 2009 World Championship Duck Calling Contest, I won.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

I wasn’t athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting.

When I was in the dunk contest, DeMar DeRozan actually did the dunk I was about to do before me. That was going to be my next dunk, so I was panicking when I went up for my turn.

I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

I like ‘American Idol’ because it’s an actual talent contest.

If you undermine people’s confidence, they turn up at the contest trying to get second place.

Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what’s important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.

Down the years, I have always enjoyed playing Raymond van Barneveld. There is always a frisson of excitement in the air, an edge to the contest that makes the sap rise, but it stops short of pure enmity.

Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran’s nuclear program.

When you’re in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

I don’t even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing – that’s what I do. Any contest, it doesn’t really take much. Just get me on the course and I’ll get going.

I inherited Mom’s verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school – and won every essay contest I ever entered.

You need to stay calm the day of the contest. Not let the weather bother me and just relax.

When I was young and I could dream a bit, I could see myself participating in the slam dunk contest. I’ve always wanted to experience that.

I showed my chin was fine when I fought Tim Sylvia in the Philippines, when our fight was a no contest. He landed a good straight right hand at the end of the first round and I was fine. I survived and knocked him out.